de Beauvoir, Simone, 13, 118

dialogue, 14–15, 19–21, 23–24, 39, 51, 75–112, 114, 120, 128, 131–132, 136, 139, 160, 163–164, 167–169, 172, 174, 176–177

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 6, 10, 100–101, 106, 174

Ellul, Jacques, 39–41

existential homelessness, 13, 18–24, 30, 34, 38–40, 71–73, 111, 116–117, 124–126, 128, 131, 162, 168

the fall (metaphor), 13–15, 17–35, 75–77, 109, 111–112, 114, 116–133, 136, 160–164

Fisher, Walter R., 11, 172

French Resistance Movement, 6–7, 11, 50, 113, 132, 163

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 5, 69–70, 77–79, 123, 173

Habermas, Jürgen, 77, 79–80, 115–116, 131–132, 169

Hauser, Gerard, 116, 131–132, 173

hermeneutics, 5, 48, 68–70, 112, 139, 169, 173

Holba, Annette, ix, 19, 22, 24, 173

Hyde, Michael, 4, 48, 173

ideal speech situation, 115–116

Kafka, Franz, 7, 10, 95, 100, 102, 106

Kierkegaard, Søren, 10, 97, 102, 106, 172–174

Levinas, Emmanuel, 137–139, 167, 169, 174

Lottman, Herbert R., 5–6, 8–9, 84, 117–118, 121, 174

Lyotard, Jean-François, 2, 10, 70, 161, 175

Macintyre, Alasdair, 19, 32, 121, 174–175

McBride, Joseph, 3, 5, 85, 103–104, 175

metaphor, 4–5, 62, 106

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 10, 58, 63, 100, 175

postmodern/postmodernity, 2, 5, 10, 13, 37, 55, 70–72, 77, 103, 106, 110, 128–129, 132, 156, 160–161, 165–166, 175

public sphere, 14–15, 19, 21–24, 113–133, 136, 160, 163–164, 173

rebellion (as a metaphor), 12, 14–15, 37–73, 76, 111–112, 132, 160, 162, 165

responsibility, 15, 19, 23–24, 30, 34, 61, 72, 111, 131, 135–157, 160, 162–165, 168, 171, 174

Ricoeur, Paul, 4–5, 123, 176

Sartre, Jean Paul, 6–9, 13, 15–16, 49–51, 113–133, 135, 163–164, 165, 168–170, 173–174, 176

Sleasman, Brent C., 2, 4, 10, 33, 50, 106, 130, 169, 176

social practices, 13, 18, 32–34, 40, 73, 75, 114, 131–132, 160, 162–164